15 Facts You Might Not Know about Murder, She Wrote - Neatorama Neatorama • 9 Jessica Fletcher, a widow in a small town in Maine, writes murder mystery novels. Everywhere she goes, people are murdered. When she visits friends and relatives, people are murdered. But the quick-minded Mrs. Fletcher always solves the case and finds the culprit. This is the premise of Murder, She Wrote , a television show that ran from 1984 through 1997. Here are some bits of trivia the series. 1. At the beginning of the series, Jessica Fletcher lives at 698 Candlewood Lane, Cabot Cove, Maine 03041. Where is this fictional town? That’s unclear, but here ’s a webpage that meticulously pieces together the geographic clues mentioned in the series. 2. Over its 12-year run, the series listed by title 25 mystery novels that Jessica has written, starting with The Corpse Danced at Midnight--her first book. 3. By the early 1980s, Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple character had thrived on British television for a decade.

CBS wanted to create a similar series to exploit its popularity. The network created and aired a Miss Marple television movie called A Caribbean Mystery .This movie was a hit, so CBS continued to work in this direction. 4. CBS decided to create a dramatic series about a mystery novel writer who solved mysteries. They offered the lead role for Murder, She Wrote to Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker on All in the Family. She declined. 5. Jessica Fletcher doesn’t drive a car. Angela Lansbury liked this “because it precludes, in a sense, the need for car chases.” 6. Lansbury had demands for the show’s tone before she would accept the lead role. “I stipulated that there should be no scenes of gratuitous violence, with blood and gore and car smashes.” 7. The house that was shot as Jessica Fletcher’s was the Blair House Inn , a bed and breakfast Mendocino, California. Pictured above is Angela Lansbury with Grover Wickersham, the owner of the inn, and his son. 8. Merchandise inspired by the show includes a board game produced in 1985.

It’s played by 4-6 players, one of whom is secretly the murderer. Board Game Geek summarizes it: One player is secretly and randomly chosen to be the murderer, the rest are detectives (Jessica Fletcher) trying to determine which player is the murderer. The murderer player wins if he/she can murder five witnesses and escape off of the game board before he/she is discovered. A detective player wins by being the first to correctly deduce the identity of the murderer, before the murderer escapes. Players mark which locations they have visited and in which order. This information, along with the living or dead status of the witnesses, is used by the detective players to deduce who is the murderer player. TV ACRES: Real Estate > Cities and Towns > Cabot Cove, Maine (Murder, She Wrote) Corinne (Sally Klein) Group of ladies seen at the local beauty salon who offer helpful advice and information to Jessica Fletcher. Jessica Fletcher later moved to New York City to be near her publisher (Covington House Press, Manhattan) and to teach criminology at Manhattan University. She took up residence at Apartment 4B at the Penfield House Apartments, 941 West 61st Street in New York City.

Jessica's character was revived in a number of TV-Movies based on the series including Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997), Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die for (2000) and Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001). The Blair House Inn, aka the home of Jessica Fletcher TRIVIA NOTE: In reality, the coastal town of Mendocino, California, north of San Francisco, doubled for the town of Cabot Cove, Maine. The house used for establishing outside shots of Jessica Fletcher's home was the Blair House Inn, a bed-and-breakfast situated at 45110 Little Lake Street in Mendocino. The nearby Hill House Inn at 10701 Palette Drive was also used for filming exterior and interiors shots on the show. However, most of the program was filmed on the Universal Studio lots in Southern California. Some additional shots were filmed in Northern California and Oregon.

External Links AngelaLansbury.net - "Murder, She Wrote": Jessica Fletcher Something about Jessica (Pictures taken from the Raiuno web-site: ) Jessica Fletcher (Jessica Beatrice Macgill Fletcher), as you know, is a substitute English teatcher, better known as J.B. Fletcher, the world-famous best-seller mysteries writer, with millions of fans in every part of the planet! Jessica Fletcher's typewriter (Photo taken by Angie (C) AngelaLansbury.net) She was married with Frank Fletcher, died in the early 1980s. She lived at 698 Candlewood Lane in Cabot Cove, Maine 03041. Cabot Cove is a 3,560 inhabitants town near the ocean. While teaching Criminology at Manhattan University she stayed in Manhattan at the Penfield House Apts. at 941 West 61st St. Her most famous novel is The Corpse Danced at Midnight (mentioned in more episodes), even if she wrote 28 novels at all (included the title I mentioned). The other novels written by J.B.

Fletcher are: Murder on the Amazon (mentioned in episode 13), Lover's Revenge (14), Dirge for a Dead Dachshund (23), The Umbrella Murders (28 and 209), The Killer Called Collect (29), Murder at the Digs (33), The Stain on the Stairs (65), The Belgrade Murders (68), Sanitarium of Death (69), Calvin Canterbury's Revenge and Murder at the Asylum (74), Murder Comes to Maine (88), The Messenger at Midnight (164), Ashes, Ashes, Fall Down Dead (158), Murder at the Ridge Top (179), The Corpse at Vespers (190), The Triple Crown Murders (190 and 204), The Crypt of Death (201), The Uncaught (207 and 210), The Dead must Sing (209), Stone Cold Dead (214), The Launch Pad Murder (224), Runway to Murder (236), Venomous Valentine (251), A Case and a Half of Murder (264).

Two books written by Jessica Fletcher. Two bestsellers, of course!!! :-) (Picture taken from the Raiuno web-site: ) Click here to know something about Sheriff Amos Tupper, Sheriff Mort Metzger and Dr. Seth Hazlitt..... List of the addresses of fictional characters Donate to Wikibin List of the addresses of fictional characters This is a list of the addresses of fictional characters, from various media such as television, literature, or film.

1 *13 Rue del Percebe (comic of same name by Francisco Ibanez) A * Abbott family (Bless This House) - Birch Avenue, Putney, UK * The Addams Family - Cemetery Ridge, USA * Alexander, Susan (Citizen Kane) - 185 West 74th Street, New York, New York * Anderson family (Father Knows Best) - 607 South Maple Street, USA * Larry Appleton and his cousin Balki Bartokomous (Perfect Strangers) - 711 Calhoun Street, Chicago, Illinois * Jon Arbuckle and his pets (Garfield) - alternately 711 Maple Street, USA (comic strip) or 357 Shady Grove Lane, USA (TV series) * Lew Archer's office (series of novels) - 8411 1/2 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California * Avengers Mansion Headquarters of the Avengers - 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City B * Barone family (Everybody Loves Raymond) - 320 Fowler Street, Lynbrook, New York (Long Island) * Batman - Wayne Manor, Gotham City, USA * Baxter family (Hazel) -

 123 Marshall Road, Hydsberg, New York * Mr.

Bear & others (comic strip Achewood) - 62 Achewood Court * Mr Benn - 52 Festive Road, Putney, London, UK * Frank Black and Family (Millennium) - 1910 Ezekiel Drive, Seattle, WA * Sirius Black (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) - 12 Grimmauld Place, London, UK * Leopold Bloom - 7 Eccles St.

* Elwood Blues (The Blues Brothers) - 1060 West Addison Street, Chicago, Illinois (Wrigley Field) (according to his driver's license) * Charlie Bone and family (Children of the Red King) - Number 9 Filbert Street * Ed and Christopher Boone (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) - 36 Randolph Street, Swindon * Boswell family (Bread) - 30 Kelsall Street, Liverpool * The Bower Agency (Who's the Boss?) - 323 East 57th Street, New York, New York * Bower family (Who's the Boss?) - 3344 Oak Hills Drive, Fairfield, Connecticut * The Brady Bunch - 4222 Clinton Way, Los Angeles, California * Emmett Brown (Back to the Future) - 1640 Riverside Drive, Hill Valley, California * Hyacinth Bucket (Keeping Up Appearances) - Blossom Avenue, UK * Bueller family (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) - 164 North Dutton Street, Santa Monica, CA (This is in the 1990 NBC sitcom.

In the original film, the Buellers lived in Shermer, Illinois, also the setting for The Breakfast Club and, possibly, the homes of Neal Page from Planes, Trains and Automobiles and the McAllister family from Home Alone, all films directed by John Hughes.) * Phoebe Buffay (Friends) - 5 Morton St. Apt. 14. New York City New York (Manhattan) USA * Bundy family (Married...

with Children) - 9764 Jeopardy Lane, Chicago, Illinois * Bunker family (All in the Family) - 704 Hauser Street, New York City, New York (Astoria, Queens) * Burber family - 9 Chickweed Lane (daily comic strip of the same name) * Bureau de l'Invisible (French novel series) - 28 Crawford Street, a corner away from Baker Street in London * Montgomery Burns (The Simpsons) - 1000 Mammon Lane, Springfield, USA C * Minnie Caldwell (Coronation Street) - 15 Jubilee Terrace until 1962, then 5 Coronation Street, Weatherfield, Greater Manchester, UK * Carey, Drew (The Drew Carey Show) - 720 Sedgewick, Cleveland, Ohio * Blake Carrington (Dynasty) - 173 Essex Drive, Denver, CO * Cheers - 112 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. (This is the address given on the show, though the Bull & Finch Pub, the real-life basis for the bar, is at 84 Beacon Street.

This may have been an attempt to keep fan letters from going to the real-life counterpart.) * Clampett family (Beverly Hillbillies) - 518 Crestview Drive, Beverly Hills, California * Joan Clayton (Girlfriends) - 700 block of North Wilton Place, Los Angeles, California * Cleaver family (Leave it to Beaver) - 485 Maple Street (later 211 Pine Street), Mayfield, USA * The Colbys - Belvedere Mansion, Los Angeles, California * Conner family (Roseanne) - 714 Delaware, Lanford IL * Dr.

Frasier Crane and Martin Crane - Apartment 1901, Elliott Bay Towers, Seattle, Washington * Cunningham family (Happy Days) - 565 North Clinton Drive, Milwaukee, WI D * Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice) - Pemberley, Derbyshire, England * Dethklok (Metalocalypse) - Mordhaus, exact location unknown * Blanche Devereaux, who owns the house and rents rooms to Dorothy Zbornak, Rose Nylund, and Sophia Petrillo, (The Golden Girls) - 6151 Richmond Street, Miami, Florida *The Doctor, (Doctor Who comic strip and Virgin New Adventures) - Smithwood Manor, Allen Road, Kent, England * Dolittle, Dr. John (Doctor Dolittle series of books) - Oxenthorpe Road, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, Slopshire, England * Donald Duck - 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota * Dursley family (Harry Potter books) - 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, UK *Durden, Tyler (Fight Club) - 420 Paper St.

Wilmington, DE 19886 E * Lord Emsworth (novels of P. G. Wodehouse) - Blandings Castle, Shropshire *The Evans family (Good Times) -321 North Gilbert, Chicago, IL * Ewing family (Dallas) - Southfork Ranch, Braddock County, Texas, USA F * The Fantastic Four - The Baxter Building, New York, New York.

* Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers) - Fawlty Towers Hotel, Torquay, Torbay, UK * The Flanders family (The Simpsons) - 740 Evergreen Terrace * Jessica Fletcher (Murder, She Wrote) - 698 Candlewood Lane, Cabot Cove, ME * Phileas Fogg - 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, London, UK * The Funnies (Doug) - 21 Jumbo Street, Bluffington, USA G * Monica Geller, first with Phoebe Buffay, then Rachel Green, finally with Chandler Bing (Friends) - 425 Grove Street, Apartment 20, New York, New York (Chandler and Joey Tribbiani, later Joey and Rachel, lived in Apartment 19; the actual building is at 90 Bedford Street, on the corner of Grove) * Griffin family (Family Guy) - 31 Spooner Street, Quahog, Rhode Island * From the Goon comic book series - Lonely Street, home to the Priest and his hordes of zombies H * The Halliwell Manor (Charmed) - 1329 Prescott Street, San Francisco, California

 (The actual manor is located at 1329 Carroll Ave, Los Angeles, California, in the famous Echo Park neighborhood.) * Tony Hancock (Hancock's Half Hour) - 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam * Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, DSO (novels of John Buchan) - Fosse Manor, Oxfordshire * Harper family (Mama's Family) - 1 Old Decatur Road, Raytown, USA * Hatcher family (Judy Blume's "Fudge" books) - 25 West 68th Street, New York, New York * Doug and Carrie Heffernan; Arthur Spooner (The King of Queens) - 3223 Aberdeen Avenue, Rego Park, New York * Earl and Randy Hickey - Room 231, The Palms Motel, 9005 Lincoln Blvd, Camden, USA * Hank and Peggy Hill (King of the Hill) - 84 Rainey Street, Arlen, TX, 78054 (The zip code is actually for Beeville, TX) * Sherlock Holmes - 221B Baker Street, London, UK * Huxtable family

 (The Cosby Show) - 10 Stigwood Avenue, New York City (Brooklyn) I * Uncle Fred, The Earl of Ickenham (novels of P.

G. Wodehouse) - Ickenham Hall, Ickenham, Hants, UK J *Justice Inc. and the Avenger - No. 1 Bleek Street K * Clark Kent (Superman) - 344 Clinton St., Apt. 3B, Metropolis, USA (later 1938 Sullivan Lane, Metropolis) * Eugene Krabs (SpongeBob SquarePants) - 3541 Anchor Way, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean * Kramden family (The Honeymooners) - 328 1/2 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn, New York L * Lane family (The Patty Duke Show) - 8 Remsen Drive, Brooklyn Heights New York City, New York, USA * Laverne & Shirley - 730 Knapp Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Lawrence family (Gidget) - 803 N.

Dutton Drive, California, USA * Leopold Bloom (Ulysses) - 7 Eccles St., Dublin 7, Ireland M * Magnum, P.I., Robin's Nest - 11435 18th Avenue, Oahu, HI * Miss Marple - Danemead, High Street, St Mary Mead * Victor Meldrew, 19 Riverbank, UK * Mindy McConnell and Mork (Mork and Mindy) - 1619 Pine Street, Boulder, Colorado * Fibber McGee and Molly (his wife) - 79 Wistful Vista, USA. * Travis McGee - Slip F-18 at Bahia Mar Marina - docking place of houseboat; this was a real address, although it has since been demolished according to Spider Robinson: a photo of him sitting at the base of the dedication plaque to McGee at the slip (as described in Robinson's novel Callahan's Key) may be found on this page ) * Daria Morgendorffer (Daria) - 1111 Glen Oaks Lane, Lawndale USA * Fox Mulder (The X-Files) - 2630 Hegal Place, Apt.

42, Alexandria, Virginia, 23242 * The Munsters - 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, USA. There is however a Mockingbird Lane in South Pasadena, California. N * Nelson family (I Dream of Jeannie) - 1020 Palm Drive, Cocoa Beach, FL * Navidson Family (House of Leaves) - Succoth and Ash Tree Lane * Newman (Seinfeld) - Apartment 5E, 129 West 81st Street, New York, New York O * Stan & Hilda Ogden (Coronation Street) - 13 Coronation Street, Weatherfield, Greater Manchester, UK * Oscar and Felix (The Odd Couple) - 1049 Park Avenue, New York, New York * Owens family (Mr.

Belvedere) - 200 Spring Valley Road, Beaver Falls, PA P * Paddington Bear - 32 Windsor Gardens, London * The Partridge Family - 698 Sycamore Road, San Pueblo, CA * Reginald Iolanthe Perrin (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin) - 12 Coleridge Close, Climthorpe, London, UK * Adrianna Pennino (Rocky) - 1818 Tusculum St, Philadelphia, PA 19134-3416 * Petrie family (The Dick Van Dyke Show) - 448 Bonnie Meadow Road, New Rochelle, New York. Their next-door neighbors are Dr. Jerry Helper (a dentist), his wife Millie and their children. * Petrillo family (The Golden Girls) - 6151 Richmond Street, Miami Beach, Florida * Phil's Bar & Grill (Murphy Brown) - 1595 I Street NW, Washington, D.C.

(Usually written as "EYE Street" to differentiate it from 1st Street, listed as "FIRST" on street signs) * Pickle and Lamb families (Cloudstreet) - 1 Cloud Street, West Leederville, Perth, Western Australia * Hercule Poirot - Apt. 56B, Whitehaven Mansions, Sandhurst Square, London W1, UK. * Solar Pons - 71B Praed Street, London, UK * Post family (Mr.

Ed) - 17230 Valley Road, USA * Harry Potter - The cupboard under the Stairs, 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey (later moved to normal bedroom, as Dursley family, above) * Screech Powers (Saved by the Bell) - 88 Edgemont, Palisades, California R * Ricardo family (I Love Lucy) - Apartment 4A (later 3D), 623 East 68th Street, New York, New York * Mary Richards (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) - Apartment D, 119 North Weatherly Avenue, Minneapolis, MN * Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files) - 2354 Pacific Coast Highway, California, USA * Rush family (Keep it in the Family) - Highgate Avenue, Highgate S * Fred G. and Lamont Sanford (Sanford and Son) - 9114 S. Central Ave., Watts, Los Angeles, California. * Doc Savage - 86th floor of "the skyscraper" (implicitly the Empire State Building), New York, New York. He also resided in a Fortress of Solitude at the North Pole ...

presumably sharing this space with Superman and Santa Claus! * Dana Scully (The X-Files) - 3170 W. 53 Rd. #35, Annapolis, Maryland * Lynette Scavo and her family (Desperate Housewives) - 4355 Wisteria Lane, Fairview, Eagle State * Seaver family (Growing Pains) - 15 Robin Hood Lane, USA (later specified as Huntington, Long Island, New York) * Jerry Seinfeld - Apartment 5A, 129 West 81st Street, New York, New York (The actual address of that apartment is 757 S. New Hampshire Ave. in Los Angeles, 1 block south of Wilshire Bl.) *Angelica Serralde (Blue Demon Jr., el Legado) - Heriberto Frias 15, Mexico City.

* Sethe (main character of Toni Morrison's Beloved) - 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, OH * Ena Sharples (Coronation Street) - Glad Tidings Mission, 16 Coronation Street, Weatherfield, Greater Manchester, UK * The Simpsons - 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, USA **15201 Maple Systems Road, Cypress Creek, USA (You Only Move Twice ) * Soprano family (The Sopranos); 633 Stag Trail Road in North Caldwell, New Jersey, USA * SpongeBob SquarePants - 124 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean * Sabrina Spellman (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch) - 133 Collins Road, in the fictional town of Westbridge, USA * Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) - 120 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean * Steadman family (Thirtysomething) - 1710 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Philadelphia, PA * Stephens family (Bewitched) - 1164 Morning Glory Circle, Westport, CT * Harold and Albert Steptoe (Ste

ptoe and Son) - 24 Oil Drum Lane, Shepherd's Bush, UK.

* Stone family (The Donna Reed Show) - 4-3926 Hillsdale *Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum -177A Bleecker Street in New York's Greenwich Village * Sugarbaker Design Firm (Designing Women) - 1521 Sycamore, Atlanta, GA * Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale, CA * Superman and Lois Lane - 1938 Sulivan Lane, Metropolis, USA (in recent/current comics; 1938 being a tribute to the year of the character's comic book debut) T * Tanner family (ALF) - 167 Hemdale Street, Los Angeles, California * Tanner family (Full House) - 1882 Gerard Street, San Francisco, California * Albert Tatlock (Coronation Street) - 1 Coronation Street, Weatherfield, Greater Manchester, UK * Taylor family (The Andy Griffith Show) - 322 Maple, Mayberry, North Carolina * Taylor family (Home Improvement) - 510 Glenview, Detroit, Michigan * Tenenbaum family (The Royal Tenenbaums) - 11

1 Archer Avenue, New York City, New York * Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants) - 122 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean * Eric Thursley (Faust Eric) - 13 Midden Lane, Pseudopolis, Sto Plains, The Discworld, On top of Great A'tuin, The Univers, Space.

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More Space * Aunt Dahlia, Mrs Travers (Jeeves and Wooster) - 47 Charles Street, Mayfair, London; Brinkley Court, Brinkley-cum-Snodsfield-in-the-Marsh, near Market Snodsbury, Worcs * Tripper, Jack (Three's Company) - 834 Ocean Vista Avenue #201, Santa Monica, California, USA * Trotter family (Only Fools and Horses) - Nelson Mandela House, Peckham, London * Joy and Darnell Turner (My Name Is Earl) - Pimmit Hills Trailer Park, Space C-13, Camden, USA * Jackie and Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) - Flat 48, Bucknall House, Powell Estate, London V * Vimes family (Discworld novels) - Ramkin Manor, Scoone Avenue, Ankh-Morpork W * Wallace and Gromit - 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, Lancs * Walsh family (Beverly Hills 90210) - 933 Hillcrest Drive, Beverly Hills, California * Waluigi (Mario Power Tennis) - 12 Grimace Lane, Mushroom Kingdom *

 Bruce Wayne (Batman) - Wayne Manor, outside Gotham City (exact location unknown) * Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, home and business of Fred and George Weasley - 93 Diagon Alley, London * Wilkerson family ( Malcolm in the Middle ) - 12334 Maple Blvd.

* Lord Peter Wimsey - 110a Piccadilly, London * Charles Emerson Winchester III (') - 16 Briarcliff Lane, Boston. "Yes, yes, Massachusetts." (Though a remark by Colonel Flagg suggests the Winchester family actually lives in suburban Wellesley.) * Sandy Winfield II and Kenny Madison - Surfside 6, Miami Beach address of detective agency set on a houseboat. * Winslow family (Family Matters) - 263 Pinehurst, Chicago, Illinois * Nero Wolfe - 454 West 35th Street, New York, New York ; also described in some of the novels as simply West 35th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, that location is the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. X * Xavier Institute for Higher Learning (X-Men) - 1407 Graymalkin Lane, Salem Center, New York Z Cabot Cove or Mendocino |authorSTREAM Cabot Cove or Mendocino Does not support media & animations Automatically changes to Flash or non-Flash embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites .

Views: This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Mendocino, CA, where Murder She Wrote was filmed. Comments Presentation Transcript Cabot Cove or Mendocino ? : Cabot Cove or Mendocino ? Cabot Cove - Fictional seaside village in Maine (pop. 3,560) and home to the world famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) on the drama MURDER, SHE WROTE/CBS/1984-96. Jessica lived in an 85-year-old Victorian house at 698 Candlewood Lane in Cabot Cove, ME. 03041. She is a widowed substitute English teacher who gained fame as a mystery novelist after her husband Frank died. Although Cabot Cove was just a small hamlet, it turned out to be the "Murder Capital of New England" Apparently, each week, Jessica found herself involved in the murder of some unfortunate local or visitor. She, in turn, used her mystery writing skills to deduce the killer. And even when Jessica travelled out of town, there was always a murdered body turning up to challenge Jessica's sleuthing skills.

Over the run of the series, Jessica investigated some 260+ murders. Click to advance MENDOCINO : MENDOCINO The coastal town of Mendocino, California, north of San Francisco, doubled for the town of Cabot Cove, Maine. The house used for establishing outside shots of Jessica Fletcher's home was the Blair House Inn, a bed-and-breakfast situated at 45110 Little Lake Street in Mendocino. The nearby Hill House Inn at 10701 Palette Drive was also used for filming exterior and interiors shots on the show. However, most of the program was filmed on the Universal Studio lots in Southern California. Some additional shots were filmed in Northern California and Oregon. : While scenes for "Murder, She Wrote" were being filmed in Mendocino, residents say that it was not uncommon to see Angela Lansbury, who played Jessica Fletcher, stop to speak with a toddler, or for Tom Bosley to sign his autograph on a Glad Bag box presented by a shopper stepping out of the local grocery store.

"Murder, She Wrote" also brought in more money to the town due to increased tourism: by some estimates, around $2,000,000. The local high school band appeared in one of the episodes and received enough money from the appearance to go on a band trip. Slide 6: The TV series "Murder, She Wrote" has had a large impact on the community. "Murder, She Wrote" was set in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine. All but nine episodes of the 264-episode program were filmed in Mendocino, while exterior shots throughout Mendocino were used in the remaining episodes. The program was broadcast for 12 seasons, from September 1984 until May 1996, and won many awards. Many local residents looked forward to the yearly filming, as over a hundred and fifty were chosen to play background parts. A lucky few were cast for speaking roles.

Slide 30: 1000+ images about Murder She Wrote on Pinterest | Angela lansbury, Murders and Cesar romero Jessica Fletcher's House Murder She Wrote (Angela Lansbury) [House of actually Blair House, a bed & breakfast in Mendocino, CA] See More Murder She Wrote |authorSTREAM Murder She Wrote Does not support media & animations Automatically changes to Flash or non-Flash embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites . Views: This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 A visit to Mendocino, the town where "Murder, She Wrote" was filmed. Comments Presentation Transcript Cabot Cove or Mendocino ? : Cabot Cove or Mendocino ? Cabot Cove - Fictional seaside village in Maine (pop. 3,560) and home to the world famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) on the drama MURDER, SHE WROTE/CBS/1984-96. Jessica lived in an 85-year-old Victorian house at 698 Candlewood Lane in Cabot Cove, ME. 03041.

She is a widowed substitute English teacher who gained fame as a mystery novelist after her husband Frank died. Although Cabot Cove was just a small hamlet, it turned out to be the "Murder Capital of New England" Apparently, each week, Jessica found herself involved in the murder of some unfortunate local or visitor. She, in turn, used her mystery writing skills to deduce the killer. And even when Jessica travelled out of town, there was always a murdered body turning up to challenge Jessica's sleuthing skills. Over the run of the series, Jessica investigated some 260+ murders. Click to advance MENDOCINO : MENDOCINO The coastal town of Mendocino, California, north of San Francisco, doubled for the town of Cabot Cove, Maine. The house used for establishing outside shots of Jessica Fletcher's home was the Blair House Inn, a bed-and-breakfast situated at 45110 Little Lake Street in Mendocino. The nearby Hill House Inn at 10701 Palette Drive was also used for filming exterior and interiors shots on the show. However, most of the program was filmed on the Universal Studio lots in Southern California. Some additional shots were filmed in Northern California and Oregon.

: While scenes for "Murder, She Wrote" were being filmed in Mendocino, residents say that it was not uncommon to see Angela Lansbury, who played Jessica Fletcher, stop to speak with a toddler, or for Tom Bosley to sign his autograph on a Glad Bag box presented by a shopper stepping out of the local grocery store. "Murder, She Wrote" also brought in more money to the town due to increased tourism: by some estimates, around $2,000,000. The local high school band appeared in one of the episodes and received enough money from the appearance to go on a band trip. Slide 6: The TV series "Murder, She Wrote" has had a large impact on the community. "Murder, She Wrote" was set in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine. All but nine episodes of the 264-episode program were filmed in Mendocino, while exterior shots throughout Mendocino were used in the remaining episodes. The program was broadcast for 12 seasons, from September 1984 until May 1996, and won many awards.

Many local residents looked forward to the yearly filming, as over a hundred and fifty were chosen to play background parts. A lucky few were cast for speaking roles. Slide 30: Murder, She Wrote - Book Series In Order Hardcover Paperback Kindle Today I will talk about a successful murder mystery of its time, a series that was written by Donald Bain and fictional female detective Jessica Fletcher. Donald Bain is the author or ghost author as they call him of more than 115 books, most of them were bestsellers. These consist of both fiction and non-fiction. The popular categories that his novels can be categorised are: murder mysteries, comedies, westerns, investigative journalism, business, psychology, historical dramatizations and food. Now looking into a brief overview of how this series was born. Harvey Shepard, the CBS network (US television) executive approached William Link and Richard Levinson in 1984 about making a mystery series with a female lead role. Angela Lansbury who was secretly expressing her interest in a small screen series finally bagged the role. In April 1984 filming of the series started and the series came to life.

The novel series was born following the popularity of the television series that were aired from 1984 to 1996 over 264 episodes covering 12 seasons. Donald Bain started writing this series for the TV show and have written all the above when he was writing approximately two each year. The setting for most of the books in this series saw the female detective Jessica Fletcher moving from her favourite location Cabot Cove to various locations all over the world to solve mystery cases. From London, Scotland, Provance, San Francisco, to the Carribbean, Manhatten, Las Vegas and New Orleans, Jessica travelled all over the globe via this series chasing her culprits. Jessica was female detective and the spine of the mystery murder series :Murder, she wrote. Her ancestor’s belonged from Kilcleer, Ireland (Cork). Jessica had two brothers and two sisters. She was a widow and an English teacher (retired). This extremely talented detective lived at 698 Candlewood Lane in Cabot Cove, which is situated in Maine. Jessica and her late husband were not blessed with children but there is mention of nieces and nephews, cousins, in-laws and relatives in the series.

Jessica’s relationship with law enforcing officers was not always pleasant. They preferred her staying away from crime scenes. However her accurate judgement and deductions on the cases forced them to accept her role to resolve the mysteries were dragging quite a bit. In some series readers felt that Jessica Fletcher’s personal life and her personal relationships were portrayed more than the actual mystery. On a popular site; the novel is given a rating of 3.5 – 3.7 stars. However there is a section of readers who are absolute loyal and dedicated fans of Jessica Fletcher and have read every single novel just for this love for the character. The opening scenes of every novel is a clear inspiration of the TV series and closely follow the pattern of its beginning; build up, climax, resolution and ending. In every novel Jessica Fletcher is placed just before a murder waiting to happen or just after a crime. Her analytical sense always made her build up the puzzle bits together and reach to the resolution of every mystery. The Signet Books, a subsidiary of The Penguine Group released this novel internationally and helped it become a household name. The first series of the novel The Corpse Danced at Midnight was made into a TV film and later a successful theatre.

The series also inspired video games for PC and Mac; board games and Dvds. This nerve wracking series has been popularised via Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus with over 114,000 likes and followers. Amazon and Barnes & Noble are the popular distributors of the book. Some followers of the series have pointed out in their reviews and discussion boards that some characters have changed massively from the TV series to the books. Viewers and readers kept the author under constant pressure of making sure that both settings marry up. I feel that since the TV series came in first, readers were automatically expecting a similar pattern in the books that followed. Now talking briefly about few of the novels written in this series: 1) The Corpse Danced at Midnight : This is the first novel of the series. this was written just after the death of Jessica’s husband as a way to cope with her grief. It was published in late 1984. Jessica got inspiration to write this from a recent newspaper news. Artistic designer Andrew Probert made the illustrations of this book. This book was later made into a film. The murder weapon in this novel was poison and the pregnant ballerina was behind the horrific crime.

2) Murder comes to Maine: This book was later transformed in to a broadway play by the name ‘Mainly Murder’. 3) Ashes, Ashes, fall down to dead: This book was dedicated by Jessica to Mort Metzger and is a narrative version of autobiography of Mort’s brother while returning home from New York. 4) All the Murderers: This is another novel in the series that reached great heights of appreciation. The movie version of this novel was a big hit in the Milan film festival of 1992. 5) Yours’ Truly Damian Sinclair: This novel Jessica based on the life of her friend who was an ex- jewel thief by the name Damian Stanton. 6) The uncaught: This book created controversies with a man called David Novaro. He was accused of killing his own wife and when the book was released, he claimed that the book was written based on his story. More problems followed on when David Novaro himself was found dead. 7) Murder in White: This was another bestseller which was made into a play to debut at the famous West End , London. 8) The Launch Pad Murders: San Francisco’s Daily Union was meant to serialise this book.

9) A case of Half Murder: This was the last novel written in this phase of this series. This was being promoted in San Francisco when the US TV series that was a household name for more than 12 years came to an end. However the novels did not stop at this. there were more series after this. ‘There’s just something that doesn’t seem right'; said Jessica in one of her novels and thus started another nerve wracking adventure involving crime and suspence

Question: Who lived at the TV address, 698 Candlewood Lane, Cabot Cove, Maine?
Answer: JESSICA FLETCHER